![]() ![]() Analog Devices is positioned to help build this infrastructure today.ĪDI’s portfolio of data center solutions ranges from power management to optical control for gigabit connectivity and, finally, to sensor solutions for data center infrastructure development. The intelligent edge will play a key role in a collaborative effort needed to generate the necessary compute power-all the while using effective, renewable energy sources, and enhancing network infrastructure to support unprecedented levels of data. These goals can only be met if we can build the necessary infrastructure to support them. It feels like a metaphor for something, but you can’t think what.The metaverse is poised to influence every aspect of our lives, but Analog Devices believes that if the metaverse is to become ubiquitous, it must be easily accessed anytime, anywhere, without limiting or being intrusive to the person wearing it. As your eyes adjust to the physical world, you watch your immediate family stumbling into walls and bumping into each other, their vision blocked by their headsets. The holidays make you nostalgic, so you decide, for old time’s sake, to pull off the goggles. While he belts out Jingle Bells, you begin handing out the presents, bracing for the yearly tantrum when the kids, who legally can spend only 95.3% of their waking hours in the Metaverse, realize their new toys don’t actually exist.įinally, the evening is over, and people begin spontaneously disappearing as they teleport to their virtual bedrooms. It’s Christmas, so how about Mariah Carey? Turns out she’s only available as an NFT, and she costs Z1m (1 million Zuckcoin). Conversation is, unsurprisingly, dominated by your conspiracy-theorist uncle, who has spent the whole night waiting for JFK Jr to show up – which, in this reality, is not outside the realm of possibility.Īfter dinner it’s time for entertainment, and it’s the Metaverse, so you’re excited for an appearance by a big star, digitized. Edith and Walter are late to the table they’ve been in the real-life bathroom, vomiting from what doctors have termed goggle-derived motion sickness (GDMS). When it’s complete, a disembodied blue thumbs-up briefly appears over the table and dinner begins. Doing your best to avoid stray pulsating tentacles, you push them back into the rift they emerged from, making a mental note to contact Meta’s support staff yet again.įinally you all sit down for your meal, though before the food will materialize, you’ll of course need to chant the Pledge to Lord Zuckerberg. A pair of alien avatars have appeared out of nowhere and started doing weird sex stuff, which, to be fair, accounts for most of what happens in the Metaverse. But wait, the fabric of reality is tearing over by your stepdad, and … yep, someone’s hacked Christmas again. Soon it will be time for dinner – which is never as filling as it used to be, given that it’s made up of mainly zeroes and ones. Your progressive relatives bemoan their plight, while your more callous family members have a good chuckle, wondering what it must be like to be left behind in a world where matter is still a thing. Just as it was last year, the go-to topic is the plight of the “phizzies” – the new underclass that can’t afford Zuck’s goggles and still lives in the physical world. It’s been a while, so you’ll need an icebreaker. ![]() On the plus side, no one has aged a day since you last saw them. ![]() So you’ll have to make educated guesses about who’s who as you approach giant T-rexes and smiling robots – don’t want to accidentally get stuck making small talk with weird cousin Andrew, who is either that zombie in the corner or the knife-wielding guy in the hockey mask. Of course, because everyone’s chosen an avatar, there are no familiar faces. It’s programmed with all his favorite anecdotes and jokes – in fact, it’s so lifelike that as the years go by, you’ll forget entirely which relatives are still actually breathing. And is that Great-great-Uncle Harry? It is! He died last year, but a little thing like that won’t stop his avatar from showing up. Instantly, you’re transported to a customized digital environment – perhaps somewhere with a Dickensian flourish, such as a Victorian workhouse, or one of the kooky spots featured in Zuck’s demo video, such as the lifeless blackness of the cosmos.Įveryone is there: Aunt Dakota, Uncle Logan, your cousins Edith and Walter, Grandma and Grandpa. Instead of bundling into the car with the family, you simply tap a button on your VR goggles. It all begins on a cozy winter’s evening. Facebook gives a glimpse of metaverse, its planned virtual reality world – video ![]()
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